Friday, March 2nd, 2018

Recording Guidelines eBook

We encounter a variety of recordings in the course of our day – some are audio files, some are videos, some are recorded indoors, some outside or in large public spaces. We have interviews that are recorded as one-to-one, face-to-face conversations and also tele depths where researchers converse with respondents located in remote parts of the world. We receive recordings of large meetings where everyone talks at once and presentations and webinars with Q&A sessions. The subject matter or our transcriptions is wide-ranging, from market research to private memoirs and we also delve into the worlds of medicine and law.

Friday, November 10th, 2017

Announcing Global Lounge – our new faster, safer file upload solution

Not to blow our own trumpets, but we at McGowan Transcriptions are known for being super-speedy transcribers (well, so our clients keep telling us, anyway!). I mean, you’d hope we would be after 24 years in this business, wouldn’t you?!

What you might not know about us – because we don’t tend to shout about it as much – is that we’re also really passionate about innovation and technology. In recent times, it’s become increasingly apparent that we needed a powerful, custom-built file upload facility that could keep pace with our lightning-fast fingers.

Monday, September 18th, 2017

Top 10 Advantages Of Using Transcription Services

Outsourcing transcription services to a professional company is a smart choice, especially when you don’t have in-house expertise. Transcription is an expensive skill set – just think about the wages, benefits, and all the overhead costs of a dedicated audio transcription department. Thanks to reliable companies with well-trained personnel and the right tools for the job, outsourcing the service has become easier. Professional transcription is an important aspect of work, especially for medical practices, law firms, research organisations, as well as for individuals doing all kinds of studies and interviews. If you are thinking about outsourcing transcription services for your organisation, here are great advantages you can consider to make your decision much easier:

Friday, July 7th, 2017

Smoke & Mirrors – Lesson Learned

We work hard at McGowan Transcriptions to ensure that our work is of a very high standard and we also liaise closely with our clients in order to meet their deadlines and exceed expectations. Recently, we had a short, sharp lesson in the way another transcription agency is working and the fallout from it went on for days.

Very rarely, when we have been fully booked with work, we have asked a client if they would be happy for us to work alongside another agency. We have always taken care to choose agencies whose work is of a high standard and had already carried out a test to check the agency in question. Unusually, on this occasion, our client wished to have the transcripts back by midnight – a less than 12 hour deadline as the files landed after lunch.

Wednesday, January 25th, 2017

Virtually working, so to speak

As a transcription company, we are used to working digitally although it wasn’t always the case. We’ve been in business long enough to remember the days of mini cassette tapes and waiting for the postman to deliver our day’s work. However, we’ve always worked virtually and, in the ever-changing world of business, employing someone to work for you virtually is becoming more commonplace. Nevertheless, it is surprising how many business owners shy away from hiring a virtual assistant. It’s as though not being able to see a business assistant means that they don’t have any control. The truth is that a large proportion of professional relationships in any niche these days can be considered virtual.

Friday, September 18th, 2015

Transcription – why we are unique

Today is a bit special because it’s one month since I started working for McGowan Transcriptions and it’s been a wonderful few weeks. For me this has not only been a pleasant new ‘place of work’ but a total revelation when it comes to working as a transcriptionist. When I submitted my application, I did so because the words ‘professional’ and ‘team’ were in Joe’s advert for audio transcribers. I thought that’s odd, because after six years working as a transcriptionist, or ‘typist’ as one agency liked to define us – call me arrogant and pompous if you like, but I happen to think the audio transcription of often hard-won qualitative research is a wee bit different to just ‘typing’ – I’d not ever particularly associated those words with the digital transcription services’ industry as a whole.

Monday, May 18th, 2015

Top 10 Advantages Of Transcribing Services

Outsourcing transcribing services to a professional company is a smart choice, especially when you don’t have in-house expertise. Transcription is an expensive skill set—just think about the wages, benefits, and all the overhead costs of a dedicated audio transcription department. Thanks to reliable companies with well trained personnel and the right tools for the job, outsourcing the service has become easier. Professional transcription is an important aspect of work, especially for medical practices, law firms, research organisations, as well as for individuals doing all kinds of studies and interviews. If you are thinking about outsourcing transcription services for your organisation, here are great advantages you can consider to make your decision much easier:

Monday, November 3rd, 2014

Choose The Best UK Transcription Services

There are many advantages to hiring a UK-based transcription company to handle your audio transcriptions. First of all, you can be sure that English is the mother tongue of its transcribers and the work is not outsourced to third parties abroad. Hiring a local transcriptionist also ensures that the project is completed promptly. Here are some tips on choosing the best transcription services in the UK:

Monday, November 3rd, 2014

Opt For The Most Flexible Audio Transcription Services In The UK

Transcription services can help you save time when you need to convert audio speech into readable text. You can outsource the service to an audio transcription service provider in the UK that can works with this type of audio file. The most flexible audio transcription services in the UK can handle anything from interviews to market research transcriptions, group discussions, legal, and medical transcriptions.
Flexibility is one of the crucial traits of a high-quality transcription service provider. The company should be able to precisely transcribe team meetings, brainstorming sessions, staff retreats, and workshops. Quality transcriptions can be provided for a wide range of market research in PR, B2C, B2B, and telecoms. Triad depth interviews, presentations, and dictations can be handled efficiently no matter how fast the speakers are or how noisy the background is.

Thursday, September 18th, 2014

Benefits Of Hiring Professional Transcription Services In London

Using transcription services to convert spoken word to text is more practical and cost-efficient than asking your staff to transcribe for you, or doing the transcription yourself. Professional transcription companies have skilled and experienced transcribers who can deliver accurate transcripts on time. Hiring professional transcription services in London ensures that your transcripts have minimal to no errors.